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INDUSTRY
NEWS
Cisco CEO
Chambers
Dashes U.S.
IT Spending
Hopes
Any question
that the
meltdown in
the
financial
services
sector will
crimp
technology
spending can
now be put
to rest. The
credit
crunch has
hit IT
spending.
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Channel
Players
Selling into
Data Centers
Could See
Bumper Year
More than 90
percent of
data center
managers
revealed
they are
looking into
deploying
server
virtualization
or
consolidation.
According to
a Symantec
survey
released
yesterday,
the data
center has
become more
demanding
than ever,
leaving data
center
managers
with a
laundry list
of concerns.
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EU to
Unveil
Reform Plan
for Telecoms
The European
Commission
is expected
to propose
the creation
of a
regulatory
body with
power to
separate
telecom
networks and
access
providers to
foster
competition
in Europe
and reduce
costs for
customers.
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IT Staff
Acts As
Wildfire
Advances on
Pepperdine’s
Data Center
Solid
planning
(and
firefighters)
spare Malibu
campus from
rapidly
moving
blaze.
MORE
FCC Moves
to Place
Restrictions
on Cable TV
Companies
push back
against plan
to cap
ownership
and reduce
costs for
programmers.
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Data
Center
Staffing
Problems
Grow
A whopping
86% of data
center
managers say
they
struggle to
find
qualified
applicants
for data
center jobs,
according to
Symantec’s
State of the
Data Center
Research
report,
released
October 31.
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SIDE TRAQS
Facebook:
More Popular
than Porn
If you chart
the rate of
visits to
social-networking
sites for 18
to 24
year-olds
against
those to
adult sites
over the
last two
years, there
appears to
be a strong
negative
correlation
(i.e.,
visits to
social
networks go
up as visits
to adult
sites go
down).
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Web
Spending
Hits New
Record in
Third
Quarter
U.S.
Internet
advertising
revenue rose
25 percent
in the third
quarter to
about $5.2
billion, a
new record,
according to
data
released on
Monday.
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Study:
Higher Gas
Prices
Driving
Changes in
Motorist
Patterns
Despite
increasing
gasoline
prices,
Americans
are still
driving
about the
same amount,
according to
a study by
Farmers
Insurance.
MORE
Handicapping
the
Environmental
Gold Rush
In the race
to profit
off the
scramble to
go green,
there will
be winners
and losers.
Here’s how
the players
currently
stack up.
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U.S.
Becoming
Less
Relevant in
Global,
Internet
Economy
The U.S.
share of the
global gross
domestic
product has
declined
steadily
since 1999
to 19
percent
today from
22 percent,
according to
Morgan
Stanley
research.
MORE
Want to
Save the
Planet? Turn
Off That PC
Reports that
PCs and
monitors
alone
contribute
40% of total
carbon
emissions
are fueling
a surge in
power-monitoring
software
sold from
firms like
Verdiem.
MORE
EVENTS CALENDAR
NOVEMBER
Gartner 26th
Annual Data
Center
Conference —
It’s no
mystery why
data center
professionals
keep coming
back to
Gartner’s
Annual Data
Center
Conference.
For more
than 25
years, the
conference
has given
them
real-world
perspectives
and
strategies
to transform
their data
centers.
November
27–30,
2007 | Las
Vegas, NV
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DECEMBER
IDC
IT Service
Management
and ITIL
Forum
Strategies
for
Mastering v2
and
Transitioning
to v3
brings
together
senior IT
executives
to learn
practical
tools for
implementing
an IT
process
framework to
organize
operational
and
development
processes to
reduce costs
and build
cross group
collaboration.
Using first
hand
experiences
from
industry
experts, IDC
analysts and
end user
case
studies,
attendees
will address
the
strategic
business
value that
IT brings to
the
organization
and how to
deliver high
quality IT
service
through the
use of ITIL.
December
5, 2007 |
New York, NY
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Intelligence
Support
Systems for
Lawful
Interception,
Investigative
Analysis and
Network
Security
Conference
and Expo
is
the world’s
largest
gathering of
telecommunications
service
providers,
government
intercept
policy
makers, law
enforcement
agents,
investigative
analysts,
prosecutors
and vendors
addressing
lawful
interception
issues and
solutions.
Now that
most nations
of the world
require
lawful
interception
support of
VoIP and
other
IP-based
services,
ISS World
Fall 2006 is
a must
attend
event.
December
10–12,
2007 |
Washington,
DC
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FEBRUARY
EXPO
COMM MEXICO
2007
is
the 17th
annual
international
telecommunications,
wireless and
networking
technology
exhibition
and
conference
for Mexico
and Central
America.
February
26–29,
2007 |
Mexico City,
Mexico
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MARCH
Channel
Partners
Conference &
Expo —
If
you are
looking for
new
revenue-generating
opportunities
in indirect
sales
channels,
The Channel
Partners
Conference &
Expo will
put you on
the fast
track.
Thousands of
executives.
Hundreds of
companies.
Dozens of
new ideas
for growing
your channel
sales
organization.
Three days
of
continuous
networking.
March 10–12,
2008 | Las
Vegas, NV
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The
FT Global
Outsourcing
and
Offshoring
Conference
focuses on
how to
achieve
success
through a
dramatically
different
lens. Via
sessions
delivered by
some of the
world’s
foremost
thought
leaders,
you’ll gain
a
“three-shot”,
close-up,
“how-to”
view of:
What you,
the
outsourcing
or
offshoring
decision
maker, must
do in order
to succeed;
Market
factors that
will affect
the success
of your
global
services
delivery;
Ways in
which all
the players
—
corporations,
advisors and
providers —
must work
together to
create and
sustain
success.
March 18–19,
2008 | New
York, NY
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